Samsung SDI for a Green Future

The Korean company with its plant in Göd, north of Budapest, focuses on younger generations and sustainable solutions.

Samsung SDI today
Along with the footmarks of Samsung SDI, starting from Vacuum Tubes in 1970, super-large PDP, high-tech CRTs and to Digital displays, today, Samsung SDI is the Creative Leader of Technology and Market on the Foundation of Change and Innovation. The company creates rechargeable batteries for IT industry, automobiles and energy storage systems (ESS), as well as cutting-edge materials used to produce semiconductors, displays, etc. As a top-class company, Samsung SDI is providing total solution of materials and energy and creating the future green technologies. These technologies are blooming in Göd, in the heart of Hungary. Samsung SDI Hungary was re-established in 2016 and mass production of Li-Ion battery for automobiles has started in 2018. The battery is key to sustainable innovation in automobiles, this industry will undoubtedly grow in the upcoming years. As one of the biggest investors in Hungary, Samsung SDI was the first prominent role-player in the domestic electro-mobility industry, putting this plant on the world map through their investment decision, and also drawing the attention of other significant automotive suppliers to Hungary, who have also established local companies here in the past years. Today, the production and expansion are taking place at the same time. Samsung SDI is at the forefront of the effort to create energy and cutting-edge materials that enrich the quality of life around the world.

The green future
As Samsung SDI’s products contribute to the spread of environmentally friendly transport and sustainable mobility, the company places great emphasis on protecting the environment for future generations and focusing on sustainable solutions. Samsung SDI has sought to achieve the goals of eco-value by developing greener products, strengthening eco-friendly cooperation with suppliers, and developing manufacturing processes that can cause minimal impact to the environment. The company pursues life cycle thinking in the whole process of designing environment-friendly products, which embodies product planning, development, and design phases. Though Samsung SDI is not an end-product maker, it considers end-users’ product use and disposal when making products. Additionally, Samsung SDI built a computing system that can automatically estimate Eco-profile in the mass production.

Samsung SDI against deep-sea mining
Samsung SDI is among the first global companies to have signed up to a World Wildlife Fund (WWF) call for a moratorium on deep-sea mining. South Korea's Samsung SDI is the first battery maker to participate in WWF's initiative. This is a big step forward for the company, because the metals needed to make batteries can be extracted from the seabed. Samsung SDI commits not to source any minerals from the seabed, to exclude such minerals from their supply chains, and not to finance deep seabed mining activities.

Focusing on people
Under Samsung SDI’s CEO banner, “The first principle of management is the safe environment,” the company continuously builds eco-friendly and safe workplaces. The pandemic has brought a lot of change to the company as well, but all along, the number one priority has been to make and feel people safe. Samsung SDI made exemplary decisions on a daily basis for the benefit of its employees. When vaccines appeared, Samsung SDI was among the first companies that indicated the intention to provide vaccination for employees. Today, all employees can get the vaccine within the company.
As the company is creating future technologies and the future is in the hand of the younger generation, Samsung SDI’s mission is to share its capabilities with the new generation to pursue their dreams and grow into the future energy together. The company is proud to be involved in educating people from primary school to university. As one of the most important corporate value is talent support, the company has launched numerous trainings, helping young generations to complete their studies and create a vision for them that points in one direction: the green future. This year, Samsung SDI supports engineering students at the Budapest University of Technology and Economics (BME), providing professional knowledge and support so that they can create their own electric car. Samsung SDI is proud to participate in this collaboration as the students represent the company’s vision.
As an eco-friendly energy company, Samsung SDI will continue its efforts to create safe, healthy, educative, and environmentally friendly working environment. Many career opportunities are provided for all who would like to grab the future with a world-class company.